Researching the Bennett Family Tree

Delve into the history of the Bennett Family History using the links below.
We hope you find this information useful whilst you are unearthing your Bennett Family History !

Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 49221 people with the Bennett surname? In that year Bennett was ranked number 58 for popularity in the UK.

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Bennett records on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Bennett family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

DNA

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Bennett ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Bennett Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Bennett Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Bennett family tree.

View the distribution of the Bennett surname in Britain using the
public profiler Names database. The public profiler Names database contains distributions for
the Bennett surname in both 1881 and 1998. It also contains data on the ethnicity breakdown of the Bennett surname.

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William Bennett (born 1936 in London) is a British flute player, who has played with most of the major British orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and was a frequent guest artist in the Melos Ensemble.

Granville Gaylord Bennett (October 9, 1833 ? June 28, 1910) was an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court for the Dakota Territory and as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives.

Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 ? August 18, 1981)was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.

Eugene Paul Bennett VC MC (4 June 1892 ? 6 April 1970) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Edgar Bennett III (born February 15, 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a former National Football League running back who played for the Green Bay Packers (1992-1996) and the Chicago Bears (1998-1999), in a professional career lasting for 7 years.

Cornelius O'Landa Bennett (born August 25, 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1995, Atlanta Falcons from 1996 to 1998, and the Indianapolis Colts from 1999 to 2000.

Roy Leslie Bennett (born 16 February 1957) is a Zimbabwean politician and former colonial policeman who is also a former member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for the seat of Chimanimani, where he is affectionately known as Pachedu (loosely translated as "Between Us").

John Cook Bennett (August 3, 1804 ? August 5, 1867) was an American physician and a ranking and influential?but short-lived?leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, who acted as second in command to Joseph Smith, Jr.

Daniel Mark Bennett (born January 7, 1978, in Great Yarmouth, England) is a professional soccer player who plays for the Singapore national football team, and for the Singapore Armed Forces Football Club (SAFFC) in Singapore's S.

Henry Hamilton Bennett (January 15, 1843, Farnham, Lower Canada - January 1, 1908) was a photographer famous for his pictures of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and surrounding region taken between 1865 and 1908.

John Arthur Bennett (April 10, 1935 ? April 13, 1961) was a Private First Class in the United States Army who was convicted and executed for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl.

Shayne Anthony Bennett (born April 10, 1972 in Adelaide, Australia) was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and a right-handed pitcher, who last played in Major League Baseball for the Montreal Expos on August 15, 1999.

William Robertson Russell Bennett DCM MM, better known as Billy Bennett, (1887 ? June 30, 1942) was a British comedian who specialised in parodies of dramatic monologues and was billed as "almost a gentleman.

Marion Tinsley Bennett (June 6, 1914 ? September 6, 2000) served the United States for over 56 years in all three branches of the federal government of the United States, having been a federal judge, a member of Congress, and a colonel in the Air Force Ready Reserves.

Curt Alexander Bennett (born March 27, 1948 in Regina, Saskatchewan, but raised in Cranston, Rhode Island) is a former American ice hockey forward, who played in the National Hockey League as well as for the United States national ice hockey team in the 1970s.

Cherie Bennett (born in 1960 in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless".

Steven Logan Bennett (April 22, 1946 ? June 29, 1972) of Palestine, Texas was a United States Air Force pilot who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War on August 8, 1974.

Max "Maxie" Bennett (November 4, 1912 ? January 5, 1972) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played in one National Hockey League game for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1935?36 NHL season.

Clayton "Clay" Ike Bennett (born 1960) is an American businessman and chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, the ownership group of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise that was formerly the Seattle SuperSonics.

Stuart Alexander "Stu" Bennett (born August 10, 1980) better known by his ring names Stu Sanders and Stu Bennett, is an English professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and working in their developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) as Wade Barrett.

Lorna Bennett (born 7 June 1952, Newton, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica) is a reggae singer who twice topped the Jamaican singles chart in the early 1970s, and who is best remembered for her reggae version of "Breakfast in Bed".

Edwin Bennett (1818?1908), born in Newhall, Derbyshire, was an English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States, and founder of the Edwin Bennett Pottery Company of Baltimore, Maryland.